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Can't connect droplet with cluster database | Rails|

Hi guys im new in Digital Ocean and im trying to deploy a personal project. My issue happens when i try to migrate into a production database in a droplet rails app

This is my database.YML

  • default: &default

  • adapter: postgresql

  • encoding: unicode

  • pool: <%= ENV.fetch(“RAILS_MAX_THREADS”) { 5 } %>

  • production:

  • <<: *default

  • secret_key_base: <%= ENV[“SECRET_KEY”] %>

  • username: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_USER”] %>

  • password: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_PASSWORD”] %>

  • database: <%= ENV[“DATABASE”] %>

  • host: <%= ENV[“DATABASE_HOST”] %>

these are the steps im following

  1. Cd Into rails app on VM
  2. rails s -d -b 0.0.0.0 RAILS_ENV=production

At this point the production server is “online”

then i want to get migrations by running this:

  1. rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

and this is the issue:

Caused by:PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: database “root” does not exist

Rails -v 6.0.3.4

Ruby -v 2.7.1

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Bobby Iliev • July 1, 2022
Accepted Answer

Hi there,

The error that you are getting indicates that you’ve defined root as the database that you want to use, but that database does not seem to exist.

What I could suggest is:

  • Connect to your Managed database with any SQL client like Table Plus or DBever.
  • Create a new database for your project.
  • Then use that new database in your env variables.

For more information on how to do that you can follow the steps here:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/databases/postgresql/how-to/manage-users-and-databases/

Best,

Bobby